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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,014 --> 00:00:03,049 Wondrous wizards... 2 00:00:03,116 --> 00:00:09,522 Merlin is the authority, really, the advisor behind the throne. 3 00:00:09,556 --> 00:00:12,325 Mysterious sorcerers... 4 00:00:12,359 --> 00:00:14,794 Their job was really to communicate with 5 00:00:14,862 --> 00:00:18,798 the sacred in order to bring about a change here on Earth. 6 00:00:18,832 --> 00:00:23,569 And heavenly beings possessed of unimaginable power. 7 00:00:23,836 --> 00:00:26,706 So what had begun as a battle of magic 8 00:00:26,773 --> 00:00:29,976 becomes a horrific bloodbath. 9 00:00:30,010 --> 00:00:33,246 Throughout the ancient world, magic was used 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,984 for everything from healing to communicating with the gods. 11 00:00:38,018 --> 00:00:40,887 But did real magic really exist? 12 00:00:40,921 --> 00:00:47,159 And if so, could it have come from an otherworldly source? 13 00:00:47,194 --> 00:00:49,629 Certain human beings seem to have 14 00:00:49,696 --> 00:00:54,166 somehow mastered the power of the universe to an extent that 15 00:00:54,217 --> 00:00:56,252 even we don't understand. 16 00:00:57,436 --> 00:01:00,590 The ancients believed that they learned magic 17 00:01:00,641 --> 00:01:04,260 from their gods, and extraterrestrial gods had 18 00:01:04,311 --> 00:01:07,714 taught them these powers. 19 00:01:08,065 --> 00:01:11,267 Millions of people around the world believe we have 20 00:01:11,351 --> 00:01:15,605 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 21 00:01:15,689 --> 00:01:17,890 What if it were true? 22 00:01:17,908 --> 00:01:23,613 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 23 00:01:23,697 --> 00:01:29,501 And will we find proof by exploring the magic of the gods? 24 00:01:44,369 --> 00:01:50,769 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 25 00:02:03,770 --> 00:02:07,940 Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009. 26 00:02:07,958 --> 00:02:12,111 Magician Steve Wyrick stuns a circle of 40 onlookers as he 27 00:02:12,145 --> 00:02:14,714 appears to make a three-ton Hummer... 28 00:02:14,748 --> 00:02:16,165 Raise the curtain! 29 00:02:16,216 --> 00:02:19,118 vanish in an instant. 30 00:02:19,136 --> 00:02:22,121 Everyone, join hands. 31 00:02:29,997 --> 00:02:31,814 All right. 32 00:02:31,848 --> 00:02:35,351 There's 40 people around the Hummer. 33 00:02:35,402 --> 00:02:36,669 Watch this. 34 00:02:36,703 --> 00:02:39,772 Do it... now! 35 00:02:42,859 --> 00:02:45,211 The continued popularity of illusions like 36 00:02:45,245 --> 00:02:50,850 these speaks to a worldwide fascination with magic 37 00:02:50,884 --> 00:02:55,354 that can be traced back thousands of years. 38 00:02:56,089 --> 00:02:59,258 We long for some kind of connection to 39 00:02:59,293 --> 00:03:03,295 the supernatural, and we can have it for a couple of hours 40 00:03:03,329 --> 00:03:06,698 and the price of a ticket by attending a magic show. 41 00:03:06,716 --> 00:03:11,369 When we go to the theater and see a stage magician, 42 00:03:11,387 --> 00:03:15,006 we know supernatural events are not happening before our eyes 43 00:03:15,074 --> 00:03:18,744 no matter how much it seems like they are. 44 00:03:18,811 --> 00:03:22,948 We sometimes think of the people of the ancient worlds as simple. 45 00:03:22,982 --> 00:03:25,817 They lived in a world saturated with magic. 46 00:03:25,852 --> 00:03:29,721 There really was no distinction between ordinary life and the supernatural. 47 00:03:29,739 --> 00:03:33,492 They were completely embedded in each other. 48 00:03:33,559 --> 00:03:37,763 So belief in magic was absolutely universal. 49 00:03:37,797 --> 00:03:40,732 It was a way of looking at the world as an 50 00:03:40,750 --> 00:03:44,369 interconnected whole, as well as a technology through which 51 00:03:44,403 --> 00:03:48,507 you could make things happen in the everyday material world. 52 00:03:48,541 --> 00:03:51,576 Magic offered people an opportunity to influence the 53 00:03:51,611 --> 00:03:57,048 outcome of important events and to know the will of the gods 54 00:03:57,083 --> 00:04:00,302 and to communicate directly with those gods. 55 00:04:00,386 --> 00:04:03,421 In the ancient times, it is actually said 56 00:04:03,489 --> 00:04:06,391 that magic was of the gods. 57 00:04:06,425 --> 00:04:09,644 Somehow otherworldly, somehow beyond the confines 58 00:04:09,695 --> 00:04:11,396 of ordinary reality. 59 00:04:11,430 --> 00:04:15,667 What we see is that certain human beings seem to 60 00:04:15,701 --> 00:04:20,288 have somehow mastered the power of the universe to an extent 61 00:04:20,323 --> 00:04:22,374 that even we don't understand. 62 00:04:22,408 --> 00:04:24,509 Magic in the ancient world was primarily 63 00:04:24,577 --> 00:04:28,847 viewed as, in some ways, coercive. 64 00:04:28,881 --> 00:04:31,500 Which is to say people are attempting to control the 65 00:04:31,584 --> 00:04:35,303 spiritual realm to do something in their daily lives. 66 00:04:35,338 --> 00:04:39,841 So, whereas modern magic is primarily driven to engage 67 00:04:39,892 --> 00:04:42,594 in sort of trickery, in the ancient world 68 00:04:42,628 --> 00:04:46,064 there was an attempt to sort of coerce spirits to sort of affect 69 00:04:46,098 --> 00:04:48,433 one's life and the direction of one's life. 70 00:04:48,484 --> 00:04:53,505 Whether that would be one's fate or, in some ways, nature as well. 71 00:04:53,573 --> 00:04:56,858 But did magic really exist in the ancient world? 72 00:04:56,943 --> 00:05:00,412 Not as a form of theater but as a means of replicating 73 00:05:00,446 --> 00:05:03,248 the power of the gods? 74 00:05:06,836 --> 00:05:12,040 Shanxi Province, China, 7th century A.D. 75 00:05:12,091 --> 00:05:14,693 The Zhongtiao Mountain range. 76 00:05:14,727 --> 00:05:19,631 Here, according to Chinese mythology, lived Zhang Guo Lao, 77 00:05:19,682 --> 00:05:23,401 a Taoist saint thought to possess unique magical abilities 78 00:05:23,436 --> 00:05:27,639 and a profound understanding of the secrets of nature. 79 00:05:27,707 --> 00:05:32,510 He was one of what were referred to as the Eight Immortals. 80 00:05:32,528 --> 00:05:35,814 So the Eight Immortals are these 81 00:05:35,882 --> 00:05:39,885 semi-mythical figures in Chinese history. 82 00:05:39,919 --> 00:05:42,354 The majority of them, they're based on people who 83 00:05:42,388 --> 00:05:45,523 actually existed, and then certain legends accrued around 84 00:05:45,558 --> 00:05:47,993 these people as time passed. 85 00:05:48,060 --> 00:05:50,996 The historical figure of Zhang Guo Lao is thought 86 00:05:51,030 --> 00:05:53,832 to have lived in the mid-7th and the mid-8th centuries. 87 00:05:53,883 --> 00:05:59,537 And he was very renowned for his magical skills even at the time. 88 00:05:59,555 --> 00:06:02,641 Zhang Guo Lao is possibly the most interesting 89 00:06:02,708 --> 00:06:04,259 of the Eight Immortals. 90 00:06:04,343 --> 00:06:05,911 He is depicted as an old man. 91 00:06:05,978 --> 00:06:08,263 He could make himself invisible. 92 00:06:08,347 --> 00:06:11,816 He could go without food for days. 93 00:06:11,851 --> 00:06:15,437 According to Chinese mythology, Zhang Guo Lao 94 00:06:15,521 --> 00:06:19,724 first emerged at the very beginning of the universe, 95 00:06:19,792 --> 00:06:24,462 where he appeared out of chaos in the form of a white bat. 96 00:06:26,565 --> 00:06:31,536 He was thought to be a gifted alchemist, necromancer and sorcerer. 97 00:06:31,570 --> 00:06:34,739 So Zhang Guo Lao is often depicted as riding 98 00:06:34,807 --> 00:06:38,376 a magical mule, and what's peculiar is that he is seated 99 00:06:38,427 --> 00:06:42,080 facing backwards on this mule. 100 00:06:42,114 --> 00:06:46,651 The mule can ride divine winds and also cross 101 00:06:46,686 --> 00:06:52,657 thousands of miles in a single day without ever stopping once for rest. 102 00:06:52,725 --> 00:06:55,644 When Zhang Guo Lao finds a place that he wants to settle, 103 00:06:55,695 --> 00:07:00,465 for the night, he actually folds up his mule as 104 00:07:00,499 --> 00:07:04,569 one would fold a piece of paper until it is the size that you 105 00:07:04,603 --> 00:07:06,604 can fit in your pocket. 106 00:07:06,622 --> 00:07:10,041 And then he would reactivate it by sprinkling 107 00:07:10,076 --> 00:07:15,296 water on it, and it would reappear again. 108 00:07:15,331 --> 00:07:20,452 So you have to ask yourself, is this white mule actually some 109 00:07:20,486 --> 00:07:25,640 kind of incredible alien technology that allowed him 110 00:07:25,675 --> 00:07:29,477 to travel around China? 111 00:07:29,512 --> 00:07:32,296 It's entirely possible that what 112 00:07:32,314 --> 00:07:36,401 they're describing here is some type of a craft and that Zhang 113 00:07:36,468 --> 00:07:41,823 Guo Lao himself may possibly have been an extraterrestrial. 114 00:07:41,857 --> 00:07:44,943 In order to explain his abilities and technology, 115 00:07:44,977 --> 00:07:51,666 our ancestors described him as a magical being. 116 00:07:51,751 --> 00:07:55,370 But is it possible that extraterrestrials 117 00:07:55,421 --> 00:07:59,323 could develop a technology in which you have some sort of 118 00:07:59,341 --> 00:08:02,961 flying machine that can fold itself into hyperspace? 119 00:08:02,995 --> 00:08:05,847 It runs on an advanced energy propulsion source. 120 00:08:05,881 --> 00:08:07,549 You can travel with it. 121 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,333 It's short, it's compact. 122 00:08:09,351 --> 00:08:12,604 And when you're done, you just fold it into hyperspace, and 123 00:08:12,671 --> 00:08:15,506 it's something that you hold in your hand and... 124 00:08:15,524 --> 00:08:17,392 the whole thing just folds up. 125 00:08:17,476 --> 00:08:21,679 Is it possible that Zhang Guo Lao really existed? 126 00:08:21,714 --> 00:08:25,617 And if so, could his amazing powers of transformation have 127 00:08:25,651 --> 00:08:30,989 been based on an advanced, perhaps extraterrestrial form 128 00:08:31,023 --> 00:08:32,791 of transportation? 129 00:08:32,825 --> 00:08:36,528 Ancient astronaut theorists believe further clues can be 130 00:08:36,595 --> 00:08:43,334 found more than 1,700 miles away in Patna, India. 131 00:08:43,369 --> 00:08:47,672 Situated on the southern shores of the Ganges River, 132 00:08:47,706 --> 00:08:50,892 this ancient city is believed to be the place where the great 133 00:08:50,976 --> 00:08:53,344 spiritual leader Buddha 134 00:08:53,395 --> 00:08:57,682 embarked on an incredible journey in 483 B.C. 135 00:08:59,819 --> 00:09:03,988 Gautama Buddha was a messenger and sage, who was born 136 00:09:04,023 --> 00:09:07,242 in what is now Nepal sometime 137 00:09:07,276 --> 00:09:11,429 around 500 to 600 Before the Common Era. 138 00:09:11,464 --> 00:09:14,432 And he was the original figure 139 00:09:14,467 --> 00:09:18,002 in the teachings that became Buddhism. 140 00:09:18,037 --> 00:09:22,640 When the Buddha was born, his father was told by 141 00:09:22,708 --> 00:09:29,631 a seer that "your son is going "to become a great teacher." 142 00:09:29,715 --> 00:09:33,985 The Buddha's message, his teaching, is supposed to bring 143 00:09:34,019 --> 00:09:35,920 people out of suffering. 144 00:09:35,955 --> 00:09:40,925 He made up a religion to solve what he considered as the basic 145 00:09:40,943 --> 00:09:44,062 problems of living. 146 00:09:44,096 --> 00:09:49,834 The Buddha traveled around India spreading his teachings. 147 00:09:49,902 --> 00:09:54,455 His followers in the monastic community grew increasingly. 148 00:09:54,490 --> 00:09:59,994 He was perceived as a human, but an extraordinary human. 149 00:10:00,045 --> 00:10:03,982 In the process of gaining enlightenment, he had these 150 00:10:04,016 --> 00:10:09,454 realizations that were marked by supernatural powers. 151 00:10:09,488 --> 00:10:13,925 He actually projected and built, through pure psychic power, this 152 00:10:13,959 --> 00:10:16,811 bejeweled walkway up in the sky. 153 00:10:16,846 --> 00:10:18,062 And he paced up and down that 154 00:10:18,097 --> 00:10:24,569 walkway filled with jewels for about a week. 155 00:10:24,637 --> 00:10:27,572 According to ancient texts, near the end of 156 00:10:27,606 --> 00:10:32,010 his life, Buddha and his many disciples attempted to cross the 157 00:10:32,044 --> 00:10:36,648 Ganges, but were blocked by raging floodwaters. 158 00:10:36,682 --> 00:10:38,850 Well, it happened to be the time of the year when 159 00:10:38,884 --> 00:10:41,553 the great rivers flooded. It's at its high peak. 160 00:10:41,587 --> 00:10:44,756 Not only is it very, very wide, almost a mile wide at that time 161 00:10:44,790 --> 00:10:46,958 of the year, but it's going very fast, something like 70 162 00:10:47,009 --> 00:10:50,395 miles an hour, a virtual rapid. 163 00:10:50,429 --> 00:10:53,665 And he sees people on one side of the Ganges trying 164 00:10:53,732 --> 00:10:59,470 to build up these frail rafts, trying to cross the river. 165 00:10:59,504 --> 00:11:02,774 And what he does is... 166 00:11:02,841 --> 00:11:06,010 in an instant, and the text says that in the time it takes for 167 00:11:06,028 --> 00:11:10,315 a strong man to stretch out his bent arm, or to bend his 168 00:11:10,382 --> 00:11:11,482 outstretched arm, the Buddha 169 00:11:11,517 --> 00:11:14,552 appears on the other side of the river. 170 00:11:16,522 --> 00:11:18,856 Now, there was no boat, no form of 171 00:11:18,908 --> 00:11:22,327 transportation whatsoever, and people witnessed this. 172 00:11:22,378 --> 00:11:25,046 So was this some sort of a miracle? 173 00:11:25,130 --> 00:11:26,381 Of course not. 174 00:11:26,415 --> 00:11:30,501 So are we talking about teleportation here? 175 00:11:30,552 --> 00:11:36,407 Some type of technology that was misinterpreted as a miracle? 176 00:11:36,442 --> 00:11:38,593 Might the incredible feats performed by 177 00:11:38,644 --> 00:11:42,847 beings like Buddha and Zhang Guo Lao be based on real-life 178 00:11:42,881 --> 00:11:45,883 extraterrestrial encounters? 179 00:11:45,918 --> 00:11:52,957 And if so, could they have been the inspiration for what we now call "magic"? 180 00:11:52,992 --> 00:11:57,412 Perhaps further evidence can be found by examining the stories 181 00:11:57,446 --> 00:12:02,417 of a famous sorcerer whose supernatural powers helped to 182 00:12:02,451 --> 00:12:05,937 build a mighty nation. 183 00:12:11,857 --> 00:12:14,492 Tintagel Island, England. 184 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:16,494 500 A.D. 185 00:12:16,562 --> 00:12:19,447 Here, hidden along the rugged 186 00:12:19,498 --> 00:12:23,668 Cornwall coastline, is the entrance to a mysterious cave 187 00:12:23,702 --> 00:12:28,039 thought to have housed the great wizard Merlin. 188 00:12:28,107 --> 00:12:30,875 We first see Merlin historically in the 189 00:12:30,943 --> 00:12:33,144 writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 190 00:12:33,179 --> 00:12:36,681 He tells the story of this extraordinary character who most 191 00:12:36,715 --> 00:12:40,385 famously shows up during the time period of Arthur. 192 00:12:40,419 --> 00:12:43,588 I think that there is this tendency to think of him 193 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:45,857 as the man in the pointed cap. 194 00:12:45,891 --> 00:12:49,861 And to be a little bit sort of comical, um, or ridiculous. 195 00:12:49,928 --> 00:12:53,865 When, in fact, the real Merlin is a very, very serious and very 196 00:12:53,933 --> 00:12:56,801 important character. 197 00:12:56,869 --> 00:13:00,705 According to stories, King Arthur lived 198 00:13:00,772 --> 00:13:09,047 around 500 A.D., and he was advised by this wise man called Merlin. 199 00:13:09,081 --> 00:13:13,784 Merlin is attributed as having all sorts of miraculous powers. 200 00:13:13,836 --> 00:13:18,056 He is said to be able to bring lightning down, and thunder. 201 00:13:18,124 --> 00:13:20,592 He can levitate rocks. 202 00:13:22,561 --> 00:13:25,430 He can foresee the future. 203 00:13:25,498 --> 00:13:30,768 He can call upon a mist to cover the battlefield. 204 00:13:30,802 --> 00:13:34,339 Merlin seems to have been based on this idea of the Druids. 205 00:13:34,406 --> 00:13:37,975 Druids were the sort of religious figures, uh, in a lot 206 00:13:38,027 --> 00:13:39,327 of this early society. 207 00:13:39,361 --> 00:13:42,980 In some cases, we see them associated with the, uh, more 208 00:13:42,998 --> 00:13:45,867 Celtic warrior groups, where they would...might function as 209 00:13:45,918 --> 00:13:48,336 a king's advisor. 210 00:13:48,370 --> 00:13:51,723 Druids appear as very magical, and having various other ways 211 00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:54,459 that they could interact with the supernatural world for the 212 00:13:54,527 --> 00:13:57,629 benefit of the mundane world. 213 00:13:57,663 --> 00:14:01,349 There is a manuscript in the British 214 00:14:01,383 --> 00:14:07,856 library called the Annales Cambriae, which means the Welsh Annals. 215 00:14:07,890 --> 00:14:11,893 And in there it refers to a man by the name of Merlin living 216 00:14:11,944 --> 00:14:14,062 in a forest somewhere in the north. 217 00:14:14,113 --> 00:14:18,015 And the way it refers to this Merlin, is it could very well 218 00:14:18,033 --> 00:14:22,620 be the same Merlin as the Merlin in the stories of Arthur. 219 00:14:22,655 --> 00:14:25,456 According to legend, it is Merlin who was 220 00:14:25,524 --> 00:14:28,726 the mastermind behind a plan which would unite the various 221 00:14:28,761 --> 00:14:32,914 kingdoms of Britain into one nation, capable of fending off 222 00:14:32,998 --> 00:14:36,000 invasion by Saxon forces. 223 00:14:36,068 --> 00:14:40,838 He launches a quest to install the young Arthur as king, using 224 00:14:40,873 --> 00:14:43,741 his formidable powers. 225 00:14:43,776 --> 00:14:47,745 Merlin is stage-managing the union of 226 00:14:47,780 --> 00:14:53,651 Britain from before the time Arthur is conceived. 227 00:14:53,686 --> 00:14:58,740 He essentially manipulates things so that Arthur can be 228 00:14:58,774 --> 00:15:02,393 born in a way that has royal blood, but he does not grow up 229 00:15:02,428 --> 00:15:05,396 in a castle, which was a dangerous place for a divinely 230 00:15:05,447 --> 00:15:07,898 ordained leader to be. 231 00:15:07,917 --> 00:15:11,402 He was able to be a tutor to Arthur in his childhood, 232 00:15:11,453 --> 00:15:13,738 teach him ways of nature. 233 00:15:15,975 --> 00:15:19,043 He makes him king by getting Arthur to perform all 234 00:15:19,077 --> 00:15:24,299 sorts of feats that no one else can do, like drawing the sword from the stone. 235 00:15:24,383 --> 00:15:27,485 And it seems that he wants to make Arthur into a sort of 236 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:31,823 immortal figure in the eyes of the people, so that they will 237 00:15:31,857 --> 00:15:35,109 readily follow him and make him their one and only king. 238 00:15:35,144 --> 00:15:39,864 In other words, Merlin is the authority, really, the advisor 239 00:15:39,898 --> 00:15:43,768 behind the throne. 240 00:15:43,836 --> 00:15:46,571 Did Merlin use supernatural or otherworldly 241 00:15:46,605 --> 00:15:54,579 knowledge to empower Arthur, and in so doing, create the British Empire? 242 00:15:54,613 --> 00:15:56,648 But why? 243 00:15:56,682 --> 00:16:00,585 And who... or what... was Merlin? 244 00:16:00,653 --> 00:16:03,954 Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues can be found in 245 00:16:04,006 --> 00:16:09,060 the strange circumstances surrounding Merlin's birth. 246 00:16:09,128 --> 00:16:12,563 The birth of Merlin is a miraculous tale. 247 00:16:12,598 --> 00:16:17,852 His mother was a nun, a virgin, who has a steamy erotic dream, 248 00:16:17,936 --> 00:16:21,022 and she wakes up just knowing she is pregnant. 249 00:16:21,073 --> 00:16:24,975 So Merlin's father could've been an incubus. 250 00:16:25,027 --> 00:16:28,613 That would be a dark angel, one of the devil's legion, 251 00:16:28,664 --> 00:16:32,617 a monstrous figure, who in this case came and had sex with 252 00:16:32,651 --> 00:16:36,421 innocent women while they slept, in their dreams. 253 00:16:36,488 --> 00:16:38,956 The most common legends about Merlin say that 254 00:16:38,990 --> 00:16:42,794 he got his powers through this demonic father. 255 00:16:42,828 --> 00:16:45,963 Merlin was baptized and then the demonic nature melted away, 256 00:16:45,997 --> 00:16:49,934 but he maintained all of the magic from the demon father. 257 00:16:49,968 --> 00:16:52,603 When we're confronted by the story of 258 00:16:52,671 --> 00:16:56,341 Merlin, we're looking at a medieval figure who is possibly 259 00:16:56,375 --> 00:17:01,345 another example of an otherworldly being, who is half 260 00:17:01,397 --> 00:17:04,949 human, half extraterrestrial, and that he, in fact, is a 261 00:17:04,983 --> 00:17:09,987 representative of this long line of otherworldly beings. 262 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:13,624 This is the real core of British history. 263 00:17:13,659 --> 00:17:16,094 It's very revered. 264 00:17:16,128 --> 00:17:20,364 It doesn't seem that someone just made this up out of nowhere. 265 00:17:20,416 --> 00:17:23,501 It could be that the stories help cover up the truth. 266 00:17:23,535 --> 00:17:24,502 Which was that human... 267 00:17:24,536 --> 00:17:26,971 extraterrestrial contact did occur. 268 00:17:27,005 --> 00:17:30,708 That Merlin was actually an extraterrestrial being who was 269 00:17:30,726 --> 00:17:35,346 sent here to help King Arthur establish his kingdom, and that 270 00:17:35,397 --> 00:17:38,816 Merlin's advanced capabilities might be nothing more than the 271 00:17:38,884 --> 00:17:41,936 use of technology that he had available to him. 272 00:17:41,987 --> 00:17:46,691 Is it possible that Merlin had what many believe to 273 00:17:46,725 --> 00:17:48,910 have been otherworldly origins? 274 00:17:48,944 --> 00:17:53,831 If so, might his magic really have been based, not on occult 275 00:17:53,899 --> 00:17:59,253 forces, but on advanced extraterrestrial technology? 276 00:18:04,777 --> 00:18:06,477 London. 277 00:18:06,512 --> 00:18:08,262 1966. 278 00:18:08,347 --> 00:18:12,750 The British Museum acquires an unusual Aztec artifact thought 279 00:18:12,768 --> 00:18:16,554 to possess magical powers. 280 00:18:16,588 --> 00:18:20,892 Known as the "Devil's Looking Glass," this mirror, made of 281 00:18:20,926 --> 00:18:25,279 black volcanic glass, once belonged to the influential 282 00:18:25,364 --> 00:18:27,932 16th century scholar, John Dee. 283 00:18:27,950 --> 00:18:31,936 Dee was a respected mathematician, astrologer, 284 00:18:31,987 --> 00:18:36,824 and close advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. 285 00:18:36,875 --> 00:18:40,578 He was also considered to be a powerful magician and claimed he 286 00:18:40,612 --> 00:18:45,283 used the mirror to communicate with angels. 287 00:18:45,317 --> 00:18:48,653 John Dee was a famous magician in the 288 00:18:48,687 --> 00:18:50,688 Elizabethan Period in England. 289 00:18:50,722 --> 00:18:54,926 Probably the most famous Renaissance mage, at least from 290 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:59,764 England from that time, and he became very obsessed with trying 291 00:18:59,832 --> 00:19:01,933 to conjure angels. 292 00:19:01,967 --> 00:19:06,103 Later magical practitioners start to refer to it as Enochian magic. 293 00:19:06,137 --> 00:19:11,943 John Dee believed that there was an angelic language. 294 00:19:11,977 --> 00:19:15,012 That there was a sound, a real sound, not just a concept, but 295 00:19:15,047 --> 00:19:19,316 a voice that the universe spoke in, that the angels, that those 296 00:19:19,334 --> 00:19:22,653 with supreme knowledge had their very, very own language. 297 00:19:22,688 --> 00:19:25,322 And he was trying to tap into that. 298 00:19:25,340 --> 00:19:28,392 Dee believes this information was given to 299 00:19:28,427 --> 00:19:33,014 him because God originally wanted it to go to mankind 300 00:19:33,048 --> 00:19:35,016 throughout all of time. 301 00:19:35,050 --> 00:19:39,020 This Enochian magic was given to man before but has been lost 302 00:19:39,104 --> 00:19:40,571 throughout the ages. 303 00:19:40,606 --> 00:19:43,307 God originally gave it to Adam, the legend goes, and then 304 00:19:43,341 --> 00:19:47,378 to the prophet Enoch, and maybe to others in between. 305 00:19:51,983 --> 00:19:56,018 Did early magicians like John Dee really have access 306 00:19:56,036 --> 00:20:01,323 to extraterrestrial technology? Technology that was mistakenly 307 00:20:01,375 --> 00:20:05,461 believed to be of a supernatural or divine origin? 308 00:20:06,379 --> 00:20:08,764 In the ancient world, magicians were religious 309 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:11,701 specialists whose job was to interact with the spirit world 310 00:20:11,702 --> 00:20:14,237 on behalf of their social group. 311 00:20:14,971 --> 00:20:19,141 Their job was really to communicate with the sacred 312 00:20:19,192 --> 00:20:24,146 in order to bring about real and lasting change here on Earth. 313 00:20:25,833 --> 00:20:29,085 Centers of power would have magicians. 314 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:32,622 The courts of the time, whether a king, a Caesar or a pharaoh 315 00:20:32,657 --> 00:20:36,993 would have "vizars"... wizards, magicians... advising them, 316 00:20:37,011 --> 00:20:39,095 protecting them, using their 317 00:20:39,130 --> 00:20:43,967 secret powers to heal, to guide in battle. 318 00:20:44,001 --> 00:20:48,222 It was an important part of leadership in ancient times. 319 00:20:48,773 --> 00:20:52,692 These figures had enormous power and enormous influence, 320 00:20:52,727 --> 00:20:56,813 not only helping a leader, but helping a country 321 00:20:56,847 --> 00:20:58,516 stay together. 322 00:20:58,517 --> 00:21:02,717 Is it possible that the early practitioners of what 323 00:21:02,719 --> 00:21:06,920 we call magic were really individuals in possession of 324 00:21:07,023 --> 00:21:09,926 advanced extraterrestrial knowledge... 325 00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:14,564 knowledge that could change the course of human history? 326 00:21:14,598 --> 00:21:18,568 Ancient astronaut theorists believe that such an audacious 327 00:21:18,636 --> 00:21:23,806 notion is, in fact, possible and believe further evidence may be 328 00:21:23,824 --> 00:21:28,111 found in the legends of a mysterious device... one so 329 00:21:28,179 --> 00:21:33,283 powerful, it could make its user disappear. 330 00:21:36,238 --> 00:21:37,938 Dallas, Texas. 331 00:21:38,539 --> 00:21:40,807 2011. 332 00:21:41,441 --> 00:21:46,245 Researchers at the University of Texas's Nanotech Institute 333 00:21:46,313 --> 00:21:50,199 discover a process that can actually make objects invisible. 334 00:21:50,250 --> 00:21:55,788 These scientists spin tiny carbon fibers into sheets, 335 00:21:55,822 --> 00:21:59,258 and submerge them into water. 336 00:21:59,293 --> 00:22:03,763 An electrical charge heats the material, and changes the way 337 00:22:03,797 --> 00:22:07,433 the surrounding water bends light, making an object appear 338 00:22:07,467 --> 00:22:10,970 to vanish at the turn of a switch. 339 00:22:11,021 --> 00:22:15,308 We are not actually seeing around the object we're cloaking. 340 00:22:15,342 --> 00:22:20,780 What we're doing is we're using the heated carbon nanotube sheet 341 00:22:20,814 --> 00:22:24,984 to bend light. 342 00:22:25,018 --> 00:22:29,322 So when we think we're looking in a particular direction, 343 00:22:29,356 --> 00:22:33,226 we're actually looking at neighboring seawater. 344 00:22:33,260 --> 00:22:36,262 We're using very extraordinary 345 00:22:36,330 --> 00:22:41,067 materials to accomplish our mirage cloaking. 346 00:22:41,101 --> 00:22:44,804 But as innovative as this remarkable technology is, 347 00:22:44,838 --> 00:22:52,261 stories of devices with similar powers can be found throughout history. 348 00:22:56,483 --> 00:22:57,984 Serifos, Greece. 349 00:22:58,051 --> 00:23:02,822 It was here, on this tiny island in the Aegean Sea, the ancient 350 00:23:02,889 --> 00:23:07,994 Greeks believed the hero Perseus set off on his seemingly 351 00:23:08,028 --> 00:23:13,699 impossible mission to kill the fearsome Gorgon Medusa. 352 00:23:13,734 --> 00:23:15,618 So Perseus had this incredible challenge 353 00:23:15,669 --> 00:23:20,790 because Medusa was powerful, and you just look at her and die, so 354 00:23:20,841 --> 00:23:26,178 it is a true dangerous situation for the hero. 355 00:23:29,016 --> 00:23:31,801 According to mythology, Perseus is given a 356 00:23:31,885 --> 00:23:35,988 magical helmet that ultimately ensures his success. 357 00:23:36,023 --> 00:23:40,726 Called the Helm of Darkness, the cap belonged to Hades, 358 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,030 the god of the Underworld. 359 00:23:45,465 --> 00:23:47,300 Perseus goes on this adventure with the help of a 360 00:23:47,367 --> 00:23:52,071 number of the-the Greek gods. He is given a number of 361 00:23:52,105 --> 00:23:56,275 mythological items that are going to help him on his journey. 362 00:23:56,293 --> 00:24:01,947 He is given the cap of Hades, which will make him invisible. 363 00:24:05,719 --> 00:24:08,721 He then successfully kills Medusa... 364 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,861 and the other two Gorgons try to find him but they can't see 365 00:24:15,896 --> 00:24:18,764 him because he's wearing the helm of invisibility. 366 00:24:18,798 --> 00:24:23,035 Did the Helm of Darkness really make Perseus disappear? 367 00:24:23,103 --> 00:24:27,306 Or might there be another, perhaps more scientific, explanation? 368 00:24:27,324 --> 00:24:30,776 This could be an ancient example of an advanced 369 00:24:30,844 --> 00:24:36,315 technology, using the bendable nature of light, and laws of 370 00:24:36,333 --> 00:24:40,036 physics that we're now aware of, to make something that 371 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:43,372 seems to be impossible very attainable, and with a 372 00:24:43,423 --> 00:24:48,844 technology that anyone could use, if they wanted to. 373 00:24:52,382 --> 00:24:55,134 Is Hades' helmet evidence of an alien technology 374 00:24:55,202 --> 00:24:58,220 once used in ancient times? 375 00:24:58,271 --> 00:25:04,226 And if so, might the tales of other magical devices in the 376 00:25:04,311 --> 00:25:08,848 distant past offer proof that our ancestors had access to 377 00:25:08,882 --> 00:25:14,120 other even more highly advanced extraterrestrial tools? 378 00:25:17,958 --> 00:25:21,327 Ponza, Italy. 379 00:25:21,361 --> 00:25:25,214 Located in the Mediterranean Sea, this crescent-shaped island 380 00:25:25,248 --> 00:25:31,337 is thought to be the legendary home of the Greek goddess Circe... 381 00:25:31,371 --> 00:25:36,058 a goddess thought to possess a wand with remarkable power. 382 00:25:39,179 --> 00:25:41,981 But the notion of a wand as an instrument of magic can be 383 00:25:42,048 --> 00:25:48,354 traced back even farther, back to the very origins of magic itself. 384 00:25:48,388 --> 00:25:53,859 The idea of magic comes from the area known as Persia, or Iran. 385 00:25:53,893 --> 00:26:01,333 This is from Zoroaster, the Zoroastrian traditions and rituals. 386 00:26:01,401 --> 00:26:06,405 The magi, the priest of that belief system would use a 387 00:26:06,423 --> 00:26:12,278 handful of wands as a magical intercession, a way to connect 388 00:26:12,345 --> 00:26:15,181 the unseen world and the seen. 389 00:26:17,417 --> 00:26:23,606 Magicians and leaders of all kind use staffs and verges and 390 00:26:23,690 --> 00:26:29,979 rods and wands and scepters, maces, all from similar traditions. 391 00:26:31,698 --> 00:26:34,817 The ancient accounts of Circe's famous wand 392 00:26:34,901 --> 00:26:38,954 describe it as a formidable weapon, capable of producing 393 00:26:38,989 --> 00:26:41,991 astonishing physical transformations. 394 00:26:42,042 --> 00:26:43,959 According to Greek mythology, 395 00:26:43,994 --> 00:26:48,914 Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun. 396 00:26:48,948 --> 00:26:53,252 And according to those legends, she was incredibly beautiful. 397 00:26:53,286 --> 00:26:56,622 In fact, she was radiant. 398 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,676 She was glowing because she was not of this Earth. 399 00:27:00,727 --> 00:27:04,930 The ancient Greeks considered her the goddess of magic. 400 00:27:04,964 --> 00:27:09,268 The stories surrounding Circe usually refer to her 401 00:27:09,302 --> 00:27:11,904 powerful wand, with which 402 00:27:11,938 --> 00:27:17,109 she was able to transform people into animals. 403 00:27:17,143 --> 00:27:20,196 And so there's a famous story in the 404 00:27:20,247 --> 00:27:24,183 Odyssey where Odysseus and his men land on a mysterious island. 405 00:27:24,217 --> 00:27:27,203 And they come come upon a house where there's a 406 00:27:27,287 --> 00:27:30,122 woman inside who's singing songs. 407 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:33,709 And the songs that she sings sort of lure the men into 408 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,012 the house, and Circe says that she's going to entertain them. 409 00:27:37,097 --> 00:27:39,831 And in the course of her interactions with them, 410 00:27:39,883 --> 00:27:42,535 she pulls out a wand and touches them with it. 411 00:27:42,569 --> 00:27:45,738 As a result, the men are then transformed into pigs. 412 00:27:51,528 --> 00:27:54,730 The idea of transformation is fascinating. 413 00:27:54,781 --> 00:27:58,117 There was fear in the ancient world that you could be changed 414 00:27:58,184 --> 00:28:01,203 into a wolf or some other animal. 415 00:28:01,238 --> 00:28:03,739 And then it was imagined that some people with 416 00:28:03,823 --> 00:28:08,928 extraordinary powers could do this to you, against your will, 417 00:28:08,962 --> 00:28:10,129 and that was greatly feared. 418 00:28:10,163 --> 00:28:15,834 And a good deal of magical practice was to try to avoid such a calamity. 419 00:28:15,869 --> 00:28:18,870 Was Circe's magic wand simply a mythological 420 00:28:18,922 --> 00:28:23,092 invention, one rooted in mankind's primitive imagination 421 00:28:23,143 --> 00:28:27,763 and superstition, as mainstream scholars suggest? 422 00:28:27,814 --> 00:28:32,651 Or might this incredible device have actually existed. 423 00:28:32,686 --> 00:28:36,055 Because we all know that all of these myths 424 00:28:36,122 --> 00:28:41,744 have a core of truth to them; something that happened in real life. 425 00:28:41,778 --> 00:28:46,915 And so when we talk about powerful wands that are used in 426 00:28:46,950 --> 00:28:50,402 order to transform people into animals... 427 00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:54,239 the only thing that something like this could have happened 428 00:28:54,291 --> 00:28:58,961 is if it was a technological device. 429 00:28:59,012 --> 00:29:02,247 Is it possible, however, that an extremely 430 00:29:02,265 --> 00:29:03,882 advanced technology could 431 00:29:03,933 --> 00:29:11,307 actually, somehow, generate a shape-shifting effect... 432 00:29:11,391 --> 00:29:14,593 and completely retool the DNA, 433 00:29:14,611 --> 00:29:19,148 the physical tissues, the flesh of a living human being? 434 00:29:19,199 --> 00:29:23,869 Many different ancient legends describe some sort 435 00:29:23,903 --> 00:29:29,158 of handheld device that had incredible capability to do 436 00:29:29,209 --> 00:29:32,878 things that would seem to be magical or even impossible. 437 00:29:32,945 --> 00:29:35,247 We see Vishnu's spear. 438 00:29:35,298 --> 00:29:38,250 We see Thor's hammer. 439 00:29:44,057 --> 00:29:46,892 We see Zeus's thunderbolt. 440 00:29:46,959 --> 00:29:48,861 This could very well all be 441 00:29:48,895 --> 00:29:52,598 examples of a handheld technology that 442 00:29:52,632 --> 00:29:56,635 extraterrestrial humans who look like us did possess. 443 00:29:56,653 --> 00:29:59,905 Might Circe have come from a divine, possibly 444 00:29:59,939 --> 00:30:02,641 extraterrestrial lineage? 445 00:30:02,692 --> 00:30:04,976 And if so, could her wand have 446 00:30:04,994 --> 00:30:09,648 been based on highly advanced alien technology? 447 00:30:09,699 --> 00:30:13,085 Ancient astronaut theorists believe such an idea is 448 00:30:13,152 --> 00:30:17,556 possible, and believe more evidence can be found in 449 00:30:17,590 --> 00:30:21,260 the stories of one of the most epic and destructive 450 00:30:21,294 --> 00:30:25,264 confrontations in religious history. 451 00:30:28,231 --> 00:30:36,105 Qantir, the Nile Delta, Egypt, 60 miles northeast of Cairo. 452 00:30:38,872 --> 00:30:42,676 Many historians believe that beneath these fields lie the 453 00:30:42,743 --> 00:30:45,846 ancient ruins of the lost city of Pi-Ramesse. 454 00:30:45,913 --> 00:30:49,015 In the 13th century B.C., 455 00:30:49,049 --> 00:30:52,385 during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II, this 456 00:30:52,403 --> 00:30:56,556 city served as the capitol of Egypt, and according to some 457 00:30:56,574 --> 00:31:00,660 theologians, was the historical site of the Ten Plagues of Egypt 458 00:31:00,728 --> 00:31:05,749 as described in the Biblical Book of Exodus. 459 00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:08,618 We have the story of the Exodus, which 460 00:31:08,669 --> 00:31:11,922 is the story of the Hebrew people leaving Egypt. 461 00:31:11,956 --> 00:31:14,925 And so Moses is going to be the liberator. 462 00:31:14,959 --> 00:31:19,679 He's chosen by God, I.e. Yahweh, to go to pharaoh and 463 00:31:19,714 --> 00:31:22,015 say, "Let my people go." 464 00:31:22,049 --> 00:31:26,586 Moses is told by this angel inside the burning 465 00:31:26,637 --> 00:31:30,190 bush that he must go to Pharaoh and convince him to release 466 00:31:30,224 --> 00:31:32,091 700,000 Hebrews. 467 00:31:32,110 --> 00:31:37,030 The next thing that most people know is that he's in 468 00:31:37,097 --> 00:31:41,485 the court of pharaoh challenging pharaoh's magicians. 469 00:31:41,569 --> 00:31:44,938 In the very ancient civilization of Egypt, 470 00:31:44,989 --> 00:31:50,127 magicians played an important part in the court of the pharaoh. 471 00:31:50,211 --> 00:31:53,680 They protected the pharaoh from dark powers. 472 00:31:53,748 --> 00:31:56,416 They healed him from time to time. 473 00:31:56,451 --> 00:31:59,052 They gave him legitimacy with the people. 474 00:31:59,086 --> 00:32:03,557 They were vital in the court life in ancient Egypt. 475 00:32:03,591 --> 00:32:07,060 The Egyptians had no word for religion. 476 00:32:07,094 --> 00:32:10,597 For them, magic was their religion. 477 00:32:10,648 --> 00:32:14,017 It was around them, it was part of them. 478 00:32:14,068 --> 00:32:18,855 It was the power of their deities, it created their deities. 479 00:32:18,940 --> 00:32:21,858 It was a constant force in their life. 480 00:32:21,909 --> 00:32:24,995 So to study magic, to understand magic was 481 00:32:25,029 --> 00:32:27,514 to understand the world. 482 00:32:29,550 --> 00:32:33,670 Egyptians were the masters of natural magic. 483 00:32:33,704 --> 00:32:39,125 They understood how magic really works, how you could use nature 484 00:32:39,159 --> 00:32:44,598 and use the power of a human mind to create an effect. 485 00:32:44,632 --> 00:32:47,501 According to the Biblical account, God instructs 486 00:32:47,535 --> 00:32:51,338 Moses to give the pharaoh a demonstration of his divine 487 00:32:51,405 --> 00:32:56,509 power, one that will force him to free the Israelite slaves. 488 00:32:59,013 --> 00:33:02,983 In order to help compel pharaoh, Moses 489 00:33:03,017 --> 00:33:05,452 throws down his staff so it turns into a serpent. 490 00:33:05,486 --> 00:33:08,154 The Egyptian magicians, they look at that and they go, 491 00:33:08,188 --> 00:33:10,189 "Gosh, we can do this, too." 492 00:33:10,208 --> 00:33:14,160 All of the magicians throw their rods down on the ground. 493 00:33:14,195 --> 00:33:15,629 They all turn into snakes. 494 00:33:15,696 --> 00:33:18,732 But Moses' snake eats all those other snakes. 495 00:33:18,766 --> 00:33:22,068 And that's the beginning of what we know as probably the greatest 496 00:33:22,103 --> 00:33:24,804 magic contest ever recorded. 497 00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:26,439 God is equipping 498 00:33:26,474 --> 00:33:31,378 Moses to face off pharaoh and pharaoh's magicians. 499 00:33:31,445 --> 00:33:34,431 It is a literal battle of sorcerers. 500 00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:37,984 The confrontation quickly escalates as God 501 00:33:38,019 --> 00:33:41,721 proceeds to unleash a series of ten increasingly devastating 502 00:33:41,772 --> 00:33:45,792 plagues on the people of Egypt. 503 00:33:45,826 --> 00:33:48,361 In the first plague, Moses touches his staff 504 00:33:48,429 --> 00:33:52,732 to the Nile River, and it becomes blood, but the magicians 505 00:33:52,750 --> 00:33:54,634 are able to do this as well. 506 00:33:54,702 --> 00:33:59,906 In the second plague, Moses multiplies frogs, but so can the 507 00:33:59,974 --> 00:34:04,744 magicians, although once they do it, they can't get rid of the frogs. 508 00:34:04,795 --> 00:34:07,013 In the third plague, 509 00:34:07,081 --> 00:34:10,550 Moses brings about gnats, or some think lice. 510 00:34:10,618 --> 00:34:12,652 So for each of these plagues, 511 00:34:12,687 --> 00:34:16,122 they begin to increase in their severity. 512 00:34:16,157 --> 00:34:19,893 And up through the third plague, the Egyptian magicians are able 513 00:34:19,927 --> 00:34:25,532 to replicate everything Moses is doing. 514 00:34:25,566 --> 00:34:28,568 But finally, they have to concede that, you know, 515 00:34:28,619 --> 00:34:31,621 this is the finger of God, and beyond this, we can't 516 00:34:31,656 --> 00:34:34,273 challenge him anymore. 517 00:34:34,292 --> 00:34:36,442 What we're seeing here is very strange. 518 00:34:36,460 --> 00:34:41,164 We're seeing a magic competition that God is continuing, 519 00:34:41,215 --> 00:34:43,166 forcing a continuance of this. 520 00:34:43,217 --> 00:34:47,804 And it eventually leads to the death of every firstborn male 521 00:34:47,838 --> 00:34:53,126 in Egypt, which finally ends the entire thing. 522 00:34:53,194 --> 00:34:58,131 And Moses takes not only the 700,000 Hebrews out, but 523 00:34:58,182 --> 00:35:01,467 generally considered to be between one and two million 524 00:35:01,485 --> 00:35:07,140 Egyptians go with him, as well, on what we now know as the Exodus. 525 00:35:07,158 --> 00:35:10,677 So what had begun as a battle of magic tricks, 526 00:35:10,745 --> 00:35:16,583 turning staffs into serpents, becomes, really, a horrific bloodbath. 527 00:35:16,650 --> 00:35:18,001 That is, as the resistance 528 00:35:18,035 --> 00:35:21,788 continues, Yahweh keeps upping the ante. 529 00:35:21,839 --> 00:35:24,040 The plagues get worse and worse. 530 00:35:24,091 --> 00:35:26,209 Now, these are supernatural events. 531 00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:29,045 We don't know how they were done, how they transpired, but 532 00:35:29,130 --> 00:35:33,133 the shift in history happened because of the plagues. 533 00:35:33,167 --> 00:35:35,802 So, magic prevailed. 534 00:35:35,836 --> 00:35:39,556 Theologians will say, "This was God that did "this." 535 00:35:39,607 --> 00:35:41,191 I have a different theory. 536 00:35:41,225 --> 00:35:42,976 I don't think God is mean. 537 00:35:43,010 --> 00:35:44,510 I don't think God goes out and 538 00:35:44,562 --> 00:35:50,784 kills and so it could've been extraterrestrial. 539 00:35:50,851 --> 00:35:51,785 Might the story of 540 00:35:51,852 --> 00:35:55,155 the Ten Plagues of Egypt really be an account of a deadly 541 00:35:55,189 --> 00:35:59,692 contest between humans in possession of extraterrestrial 542 00:35:59,710 --> 00:36:03,696 technology, as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 543 00:36:03,748 --> 00:36:06,883 The ancient Egyptians believed that they 544 00:36:06,967 --> 00:36:09,052 learned magic from their gods, 545 00:36:09,136 --> 00:36:14,140 and these extraterrestrial gods had taught them these powers. 546 00:36:14,175 --> 00:36:17,143 Suddenly, they found out that they were up against a more 547 00:36:17,178 --> 00:36:22,766 powerful force, a more powerful magic than they had. 548 00:36:22,817 --> 00:36:25,718 We're not dealing with two indigenous human 549 00:36:25,770 --> 00:36:28,772 cultures battling it out here on Earth. 550 00:36:28,823 --> 00:36:29,773 We're dealing with people on 551 00:36:29,824 --> 00:36:34,577 Earth in a war they could not win against extraterrestrials. 552 00:36:36,864 --> 00:36:39,899 In many of the ancient texts, it seems apparent 553 00:36:39,934 --> 00:36:45,071 that the gods actually took sides. They were involved in battles. 554 00:36:45,122 --> 00:36:46,956 So to suggest that they might've 555 00:36:47,007 --> 00:36:51,795 been also involved in plagues is plausible. 556 00:36:51,879 --> 00:36:54,964 So the question is, was it really God who unleashed these 557 00:36:55,015 --> 00:37:00,103 plagues upon Egypt, or was it in fact an extraterrestrial? 558 00:37:00,137 --> 00:37:03,139 And according to the ancient astronaut theory, it was a 559 00:37:03,190 --> 00:37:06,893 misunderstood, misinterpreted extraterrestrial who, in this 560 00:37:06,927 --> 00:37:11,898 particular case, sided with the Israelites. 561 00:37:11,949 --> 00:37:13,900 Might the incredible power, wielded by 562 00:37:13,934 --> 00:37:15,735 Moses against the Egyptians, 563 00:37:15,786 --> 00:37:19,906 have been of an extraterrestrial origin... 564 00:37:19,957 --> 00:37:24,711 a power based as much on science as on an extraordinary knowledge 565 00:37:24,745 --> 00:37:28,548 of the powers of the human mind? 566 00:37:28,582 --> 00:37:33,086 Many ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is "yes," and 567 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:37,557 that the key to what many perceive as magic can be found 568 00:37:37,591 --> 00:37:42,095 not only on other worlds, but right within the human body. 569 00:37:47,571 --> 00:37:48,905 New York City. 570 00:37:48,906 --> 00:37:50,507 2012. 571 00:37:52,542 --> 00:37:56,963 Magician David Blaine begins a 72-hour stint standing in the 572 00:37:57,014 --> 00:37:58,915 middle of a million volts of 573 00:37:58,966 --> 00:38:03,553 electrical current, protected by only a suit of armor. 574 00:38:03,587 --> 00:38:06,356 But is it a mere trick? 575 00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:08,107 An illusion? 576 00:38:08,142 --> 00:38:12,929 Or is it evidence that what we call magic actually exists? 577 00:38:12,947 --> 00:38:15,932 We're interested in people like David Blaine 578 00:38:15,983 --> 00:38:21,204 because we find those things amazing. 579 00:38:21,238 --> 00:38:24,574 It just pushes the boundaries of what human beings are capable of. 580 00:38:24,625 --> 00:38:29,278 And I think that we ask ourselves, could we be capable of such a thing? 581 00:38:29,296 --> 00:38:32,949 We will embrace the endurance effects. 582 00:38:32,967 --> 00:38:38,004 We will embrace them because we think this might be real. 583 00:38:38,055 --> 00:38:41,558 Maybe there's something to this. Maybe there isn't a trick. 584 00:38:41,592 --> 00:38:50,466 Maybe I can evolve into a person able to do this kind of magic. 585 00:38:50,501 --> 00:38:56,489 We are quite literally searching for the supernatural in ourself. 586 00:39:00,611 --> 00:39:03,312 Izu Oshima. 587 00:39:03,330 --> 00:39:06,115 60 miles south of Tokyo. 588 00:39:06,149 --> 00:39:11,588 It was here, in the seventh century B.C., that a legendary 589 00:39:11,655 --> 00:39:15,592 Japanese mystic known as En no Gyoja was banished for his 590 00:39:15,659 --> 00:39:18,595 so-called magical powers. 591 00:39:18,662 --> 00:39:22,382 En no Gyoja was the founder of an ascetic teaching. 592 00:39:22,433 --> 00:39:26,185 Shugendo means the practice of training and testing. 593 00:39:26,220 --> 00:39:29,606 This tradition from the seventh century, done up in the 594 00:39:29,673 --> 00:39:31,391 mountains with great physical, 595 00:39:31,442 --> 00:39:37,213 arduous exercises and discipline is said to lead to an access 596 00:39:37,248 --> 00:39:42,685 to supernatural powers beyond our understanding. 597 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,256 En no Gyoja's magic differs from our European 598 00:39:46,323 --> 00:39:48,374 concepts of magic in many ways. 599 00:39:48,409 --> 00:39:51,494 This is something that you bring out of yourself. 600 00:39:51,528 --> 00:39:55,531 He would go high into the mountains... less oxygen, 601 00:39:55,549 --> 00:39:57,667 isolated, less food. 602 00:39:57,701 --> 00:40:02,038 Just one lapse of concentration and you die. 603 00:40:02,056 --> 00:40:05,308 And then also meditating in the middle of a waterfall. 604 00:40:05,342 --> 00:40:10,546 That's where he finds silence. That's where he finds control. 605 00:40:10,614 --> 00:40:13,683 Even historical records depict En no Gyoja as 606 00:40:13,717 --> 00:40:18,988 someone who was endowed with magical capacities, and the 607 00:40:19,056 --> 00:40:23,443 ability to also summon and control demons and spirits. 608 00:40:23,527 --> 00:40:25,612 En no Gyoja was also known for 609 00:40:25,696 --> 00:40:29,599 his ability to ride the five-colored clouds. 610 00:40:29,633 --> 00:40:33,169 He was also set to be executed a number of times, and every 611 00:40:33,203 --> 00:40:36,623 time the executioners' axe landed on the back of his neck, 612 00:40:36,674 --> 00:40:40,176 the axe actually shattered to pieces. 613 00:40:42,630 --> 00:40:44,964 Still, today, we're making ongoing discoveries 614 00:40:45,015 --> 00:40:50,186 about the capabilities and potential of the human brain and body. 615 00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:51,604 So it's possible that in the 616 00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:55,558 stories and legends of En no Gyoja, we're seeing someone who 617 00:40:55,609 --> 00:40:59,095 was able to somehow access knowledge that was already 618 00:40:59,146 --> 00:41:05,268 hardwired into our own DNA by extraterrestrials. 619 00:41:05,302 --> 00:41:08,271 Is it possible that ancient magicians like En no 620 00:41:08,305 --> 00:41:12,008 Gyoja were able to tap into incredible extraterrestrial 621 00:41:12,076 --> 00:41:16,963 abilities embedded within the human body? 622 00:41:16,997 --> 00:41:20,616 And might this explain similar feats performed by more modern 623 00:41:20,634 --> 00:41:27,090 magicians like Harry Houdini and David Blaine? 624 00:41:27,124 --> 00:41:34,097 Magic appears to be a derivation of extraterrestrial technology. 625 00:41:34,148 --> 00:41:36,516 It's the accessing of the human 626 00:41:36,567 --> 00:41:42,438 potential, using the technology of the human form. 627 00:41:42,473 --> 00:41:46,642 Magic derived from extraterrestrial beings seems 628 00:41:46,677 --> 00:41:48,378 to be the linkage that they gave 629 00:41:48,412 --> 00:41:53,216 us to enable us to become more like them. 630 00:41:53,283 --> 00:41:56,586 Do ancient accounts of magic really suggest evidence 631 00:41:56,653 --> 00:42:00,123 of advanced, otherworldly knowledge? 632 00:42:00,157 --> 00:42:03,026 A knowledge given to early humans as a means of helping 633 00:42:03,060 --> 00:42:08,297 them unlock their own... some might say "divine"... potential? 634 00:42:08,332 --> 00:42:10,500 We are drawn to magic. 635 00:42:10,567 --> 00:42:16,139 We need something extraordinary that allows us to transcend 636 00:42:16,206 --> 00:42:20,143 everyday life, and what we sense as profound limits and 637 00:42:20,177 --> 00:42:25,314 frustrations to what we would like to be and like to do. 638 00:42:25,365 --> 00:42:31,037 It is both a fantasy release and to a degree, a bit of a map that 639 00:42:31,071 --> 00:42:35,491 we might be able to reach further than we think. 640 00:42:35,525 --> 00:42:39,045 That we might be able to do more than humans have done before. 641 00:42:39,129 --> 00:42:43,399 That we might be more than this. 642 00:42:43,434 --> 00:42:47,303 Magic enables latent potentials that we're not 643 00:42:47,337 --> 00:42:50,873 supposed to have. But throughout history, many 644 00:42:50,924 --> 00:42:54,227 people have demonstrated those capabilities. 645 00:42:54,311 --> 00:42:56,929 They've been witnessed. It's been written down and 646 00:42:56,980 --> 00:43:01,234 passed along with great excitement and enthusiasm. 647 00:43:01,268 --> 00:43:02,318 And then, of course, 648 00:43:02,386 --> 00:43:04,320 the question is where did they get this from? 649 00:43:04,388 --> 00:43:06,322 Did they develop this on their own? 650 00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:08,941 Or was it somehow given to them by the gods? 651 00:43:08,992 --> 00:43:14,113 In each occasion, we find that our ancestors specifically state 652 00:43:14,164 --> 00:43:19,302 that magic is given to mankind by the gods, by non-human 653 00:43:19,336 --> 00:43:23,172 intelligences, by extraterrestrial beings. 654 00:43:26,126 --> 00:43:31,147 Did ancient magic really have otherworldly origins? 655 00:43:31,181 --> 00:43:34,617 And was it based not on mere trickery, but on advanced 656 00:43:34,685 --> 00:43:39,355 knowledge of science and the powers of the human brain? 657 00:43:39,423 --> 00:43:42,525 Perhaps we will discover the answer when we open our eyes 658 00:43:42,559 --> 00:43:47,480 to the possibility that what we think we know is an illusion, 659 00:43:47,531 --> 00:43:53,119 and what we think is illusion may very well be real. 660 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,120 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 661 00:43:55,170 --> 00:43:59,720 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 57337

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